Thought: it's a tactic to reset the search and indexing related to topic; separate it from historic issues in the area. For "covid" this served the purpose of disguising the sars-cov-1 gain of function research they were funding for previous 20 years.
There are incredibly bizarre plot twists to this involving the pronunciation of the name. I suspect that if you're an average American like me, you have always heard it pronouced "kee-EV".
Starting way back in the Maidan coup days with Hillbeast and Victoria Nudelman and the rest of the Legion of Rapid War-Mongering Russia-Haters, they all started pronouncing it "keev".
"Well," thought I, "they must be spending a lot of time talking with Ukrainians, and either out of respect or just osmosis, they started using the Ukrainian pronunciation." Of course, it also virtue signals that they are better people than us.
Here's the plot twist: "keev" is the Russian prounciation! Ukrainians pronounce it more like "KAI-eb". WTF does this even mean? I think one thing is that those folks secretly despise Ukrainians and hate how they talk.
Strangely, they link to a tweet that has the correct Ukrainian pronunciation. So I guess NPR has retains at least enough sense not to read their own material.
If you still have trouble thinking it could all be this effed up and want to confirm for yourself, you can get the audible pronunciations with Google Translate. If there was any entity that would try to mess with our heads, it would be SkyNet. But not here and not yet, anyway.
Thanks for the reply! You may well be right, but I actually lean towards the media uniformly being just that totally ignorant and uncaring. Let me explain....
I don't really know how much penetration the US media has in Ukraine, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was very little. Now why would I think so?
Well, back on 1/12/2020, which was a big day in DC for a couple of reasons, Trump decides to take a trip down to the border near McAllen, TX. I was looking into it and could find only two news articles on it.
One was from some mainstream network affiliate, and all it had in it was quote after quote from local Democrat politicians bashing Trump. There was almost no information about the actual event.
The other was also from a mainstream network affiliate, but it was a Spanish-language station and you'd presume the audience was Mexican immigrants. Guess what? It was just some normal news article, who what why when etc. No Trump bashing whatsoever.
Remember, this was after five years of continuous media psywar, with a special feature of "Trump hates all immigrants". They had not gotten through to Spanish speakers in America (at least down there), so I conclude it would be a couple of orders of magnitude more difficult to get through to Ukrainians on short notice.
You can find a number of posts on r/conspiracy where people are freaking out in the US and calling Ukrainian friends and family, and those people have no idea what they're talking about.
But you're absolutely right in that they have got a hard on for this war like nothing I have ever seen before. Anyway, thanks again for replying!
Thought: it's a tactic to reset the search and indexing related to topic; separate it from historic issues in the area. For "covid" this served the purpose of disguising the sars-cov-1 gain of function research they were funding for previous 20 years.
SARS is to Covid19 as AIDs is to HIV... the both describe conditions not cause.
There are incredibly bizarre plot twists to this involving the pronunciation of the name. I suspect that if you're an average American like me, you have always heard it pronouced "kee-EV".
Starting way back in the Maidan coup days with Hillbeast and Victoria Nudelman and the rest of the Legion of Rapid War-Mongering Russia-Haters, they all started pronouncing it "keev".
"Well," thought I, "they must be spending a lot of time talking with Ukrainians, and either out of respect or just osmosis, they started using the Ukrainian pronunciation." Of course, it also virtue signals that they are better people than us.
Here's the plot twist: "keev" is the Russian prounciation! Ukrainians pronounce it more like "KAI-eb". WTF does this even mean? I think one thing is that those folks secretly despise Ukrainians and hate how they talk.
Double plot twist: a couple weeks ago NPR runs a story about this very subject: Kyiv or Kiev? Why people disagree about how to pronounce the Ukrainian capital's name. Surprise! They go to great detail to tell you the Ukrainians pronounce it the way I just told you Russians do.
Strangely, they link to a tweet that has the correct Ukrainian pronunciation. So I guess NPR has retains at least enough sense not to read their own material.
If you still have trouble thinking it could all be this effed up and want to confirm for yourself, you can get the audible pronunciations with Google Translate. If there was any entity that would try to mess with our heads, it would be SkyNet. But not here and not yet, anyway.
Thanks for the reply! You may well be right, but I actually lean towards the media uniformly being just that totally ignorant and uncaring. Let me explain....
I don't really know how much penetration the US media has in Ukraine, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was very little. Now why would I think so?
Well, back on 1/12/2020, which was a big day in DC for a couple of reasons, Trump decides to take a trip down to the border near McAllen, TX. I was looking into it and could find only two news articles on it.
One was from some mainstream network affiliate, and all it had in it was quote after quote from local Democrat politicians bashing Trump. There was almost no information about the actual event.
The other was also from a mainstream network affiliate, but it was a Spanish-language station and you'd presume the audience was Mexican immigrants. Guess what? It was just some normal news article, who what why when etc. No Trump bashing whatsoever.
Remember, this was after five years of continuous media psywar, with a special feature of "Trump hates all immigrants". They had not gotten through to Spanish speakers in America (at least down there), so I conclude it would be a couple of orders of magnitude more difficult to get through to Ukrainians on short notice.
You can find a number of posts on r/conspiracy where people are freaking out in the US and calling Ukrainian friends and family, and those people have no idea what they're talking about.
But you're absolutely right in that they have got a hard on for this war like nothing I have ever seen before. Anyway, thanks again for replying!
Chicken?
Sounds like a speaker company. ”Bruh i got them 10” UBL tweeters put in my Altima last weekend.”
Yeah how come it went to covid when it was corona????